Message #78644

[Melody Stacker]

Somewhere in the Western Interior Sea, a giant pliosaur (Brachauchenius lucasi) is about to make lunch out of a small turtle similar to Desmatochelys.  Brachauchenius was one of the last of the pliosaurs and made it's final appearance in Kansas during the deposition of the Fairport Chalk Member (middle Turonian) of the Carlile Shale. Varner painting courtesy of the Museum of Northern Arizona.